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Susan Morlock, LPC, LCPC

Calm-focused therapy for performance anxiety

8 years in practice · based in Vermont · sessions in English · online sessions

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About Susan

Susan Morlock is a licensed professional counselor with eight years of clinical practice and a longer career in senior-level business. She holds the LPC and LCPC credentials and practices from Vermont, offering remote sessions to people coping with anxiety, mood concerns, and work-related stress. She focuses on everyday problems that interfere with performance and wellbeing.

That includes public speaking nerves, test anxiety, workplace pressure, obsessive thoughts, panic episodes, and phobias.

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Background and approach

Her background in business gives her direct insight into leadership demands and organizational stress. Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside nervous-system-informed care. In practice this means combining talk-based work with strategies to reduce bodily stress reactions.

Sessions aim to build clarity, calm, and trust in one’s ability to handle pressure. Her approach is practical and collaborative. She helps people set small, achievable goals and practices skills between sessions.

Techniques include breath and grounding work, exposure-style steps for fears, and cognitive strategies for unhelpful thinking patterns. Susan’s experience across clinical and corporate settings suits people facing high expectations, burnout, or recurring anxiety. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.

Sessions are organized through a subscription system that can be canceled at any time.

Approaches that help with performance anxiety online

Evidence-based cognitive strategies focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns. These approaches teach concrete ways to test thoughts, reduce catastrophic predictions, and build more balanced self-talk useful for social anxiety, panic, and workplace worries.

Mind-body and nervous-system-informed techniques teach simple practices that calm bodily reactions. Breath work, grounding exercises, and paced activation help reduce the intensity of panic, decrease avoidance, and make exposure-style steps easier to practice.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and responses to different techniques, then adjust the plan over time. Clients and the therapist work together to choose steps that feel doable and meaningful.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues matter, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can fit brief check-ins or support between appointments. These options make it easier to maintain momentum while juggling work, school, or family demands.
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Questions people ask

What concerns does she commonly address?
Susan helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, career-related pressure, and depression. She also works with issues like panic attacks, OCD symptoms, social anxiety, and phobias.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, blending talk therapy with nervous-system-informed techniques. Sessions focus on small steps, skill practice, and reducing physical stress reactions.
What is her clinical and professional background?
She has eight years of clinical experience and over 20 years in senior-level business roles. That combination informs work with workplace stress and performance anxiety.
What credentials and region are listed?
She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and practices from Vermont. The credential listings include CO LPC and IL LCPC as documented.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How is pricing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. After that, schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.

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Experience
8 years
Licensed
Illinois, Colorado, Vermont
Languages
English

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